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Seventy years later, the West Asian crisis is more tangled and the permanent members of the Security Council are split
The Indian government did have an idea that China would in the future operate in the Indian Ocean. But our plans were only defensive
The several forums that India participates in provide useful opportunities for meetings among leaders of countries which may have difficult or tense relations for one reason or another
A collective and robust call for democratising the world political economy and for building a just, fair and equitable world order emerged at the New Delhi summit
India must recognise that maritime capability alone cannot resolve its energy vulnerability
India is holding its own for now, but the pressures on its regional stature are substantial
Diplomacy is outward-oriented; its target is a foreign state, not one's domestic audience
India's air power today sits at the centre of a far more complex security environment than at any point in the past two decades
As several international relations scholars had predicted at the Cold War's end, the US is now faced with a genuine peer competitor, the PRC
Wars and border tensions have pushed up budgets since Independence but the expenditure tends to fall back once a situation eases
The import dependence is because too many plans, goals and targets have come unstuck
Even though the Indian policymakers have periodically articulated lofty goals of self-reliance, they have not institutionalised a robust methodology to measure it
India's armed forces should be capable of facing conventional, hybrid, proxy wars leading to gray zone, cyber and cognitive war in an integrated multidomain and multispectrum force
For India, the practical upshot is to treat the relations with China as a long civilisational contest over scale and standing that will persist, while recognising that the tempo and forward assertiven
The transformation in India-Japan relations is most visible in their defence and security ties
The US has acted in a unilateral manner in the Hormuz and its transgression of humanitarian law and convention is at variance with the principles underpinning the Quad
With reunification ambitions intensifying, the Taiwan Strait remains Asia's most volatile flashpoint
A partnership forged in opportunity now confronts the realities of great-power politics
If the country's energy vulnerability is structural, so must be the response to it
The impasse continues, with the Hormuz being closed by Iran, thereby aggravating an already disrupted global energy market and the US maintaining the naval blockade that seeks to choke Iran's economy
By shifting the Nato into a transactional alliance, Europe must build its own sovereign deterrence
